I was trying to remember the name for this when I wrote the original comment, and now I recall it. A chilling effect. It started as a legal concept but it app

I was trying to remember the name for this when I wrote the original comment, and now I recall it. A chilling effect. It started as a legal concept but it applies to censorship as well. It's sufficient to count as censorship if you simply punish legal speech sufficiently that the populace self-censors. [1]: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/897/chilling-effect https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/897/chilling-effect